A skier who lost the use of a kidney after an allegedly drunken snowboarder slammed into her is suing the snowboarder and Skibowl for $900,000.

Maria Magdalena Stanila’s lawsuit -- which is unusual for its use of strong language in the normally stodgy world of litigation -- describes what it claims is “A Ski Bowl Culture of Alcohol-Fueled Adrenaline From The Top Down.”

The suit claims that the ski resort has a “permissive attitude” toward alcohol that has created a situation where “intoxicated patrons ski and snowboard side-by-side with sober patrons, including women and children.”

The suit was filed Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court by Portland attorney L.G. Billy Dalto.

Brad Stanford, a Portland attorney representing Skibowl, said the resort plans to "vigorously defend" itself against the suit, which "has no merit to it." Stanford said the suit's characterization of Skibowl's attitude toward intoxicated skiing is entirely inaccurate.

Stanford said Skibowl employees won't let anyone who is visibly intoxicated on the lifts -- and if someone is seen skiing while drunk, employees will escort that person off of the premises.

"They just don't tolerate that," Stanford said.

According to the suit: On April 7, 2012, the day of the incident, Skibowl served Kyle “Roundhouse” Sullivan alcohol while he was visibly intoxicated. The 30-year-old Brightwood resident also had cans of beer on him when he attempted to pass Stanila from behind at a high rate of speed on a beginner run in the resort's Lower Bowl, the suit says. Sullivan crashed into Stanila, the suit says.

Stanila, who lived in Tigard at the time, suffered damage to her liver and gall bladder, and her right kidney no longer functions, the suit states. She also suffered strains and sprains to her back, headaches, trouble sleeping and nausea.

The suit states that Stanila, who was 35 at the time, was undergoing fertility treatments so she could become pregnant. But she was forced to stop her treatments because of her injuries and now she “may never successfully become pregnant,” the suit states.

The suit claims that Skibowl’s owner -- Kirk Hanna -- has “led by example,” then refers to Hanna’s guilty pleas to driving under the influence of intoxicants and hit-and-run driving for a May 2010 incident in Southwest Portland.

Witnesses reported that Hanna was weaving around traffic at an estimated 80 mph shortly before he struck a bicyclist near the west end of the Sellwood Bridge, then drove off, leaving the cyclist sprawled in the road. The cyclist suffered fractures to his jaw, scapula, tibia and 13 broken teeth. Hanna paid him $500,000.

The suit also claims that Skibowl "was on notice" that Sullivan could be a problem because Sullivan had said he had been "previously cut-off and/or ejected from Ski Bowl's bar for his over-consumption of alcohol and dangerous skiing."

Skibowl's attorney, Stanford, said the resort has no record of Sullivan being a problem drinker or snowboarder. What's more, Stanford said that Oregon law states that skiers assume the inherent risks of the sport -- and that Skibowl had no control over any skier or snowboarder's behavior on the slopes.

The suit refers to a case -- Myles A. Bagley, et al v. Mt. Bachelor, Inc. -- now before the Oregon Supreme Court. The high court has been asked to decide whether a ski resort’s “negligence liability release agreement” protects ski areas from litigation. A Deschutes County Circuit judge tossed out Bagley’s 2008 lawsuit, which had sought $18.5 million after he was paralyzed from the waist down when he was 18 while snowboarding in an expert terrain park at Mt. Bachelor.

Stanila’s suit describes such liability releases as “contrary to public policy and unconscionable.”

Regardless of that issue, a lawsuit over the death of a 17-year-old Sandy snowboarder, Taylur DeWolf, went to trial in Multnomah County Circuit Court in December. The suit faulted the resort for what it contended was a dangerous run that was mislabeled to be easier to snowboard than it really was. A jury awarded DeWolf's family no money.